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Aboard Apollo 13, What Happened to Glenn Miller, Shooting Down of Korean Flight 007 and Mystery of Chernoby
What Happened Aboard Apollo 13
A catastrophic explosion during the Apollo 13 moon mission effectively underscored the intrinsic hazards of manned space flight. This intense documentary uses television footage of NASA mission control and the Apollo 13 crew at work in space, recreating every fateful stage of the crisis. The creativity, courage and dedication of all involved in the mission serve as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. The Apollo crew are shown stretching the resources of their spacecraft to the absolute limit in a race against time to bring the damaged ship safely back to Earth. What was the cause of the accident? How did the imperiled astronauts manage to avoid being marooned in space? This exciting and fascinating documentary supplies all the answers.
What Happened To Glenn Miller
To this day, a cloud of mystery surrounds the 1944 disappearance of big band leader Glenn Miller. The official story places Miller on a military flight which went down en route to Paris. However, the exhaustive evidence presented in this fascinating documentary suggests that this is not what happened. The question remains, where and how did Glenn Miller die? Through the use of extensive photographs, music and film footage forma the 1930's and 40's, Miller's story is told form his stellar career n music to the circumstances surrounding his eventual disappearance. Was Miller somehow connected to black marketeers? Did he die on a mission to rescue movie star Marlene Dietrich? Did he perish in an accident or a secret military operation?
The Shooting Down of Korean Flight 007
In the summer of 1983, it was a front page story that shocked the world: a civilian airliner had been blown out of the sky by a Soviet jet fighter. The incident left no survivors, only outraged and burning question: why had the Korean 747 strayed so far off course that it violated one of the most sensitive military zones of Soviet airspace? In this gripping investigative report, maps and radio messages trace the progress of the fatal flight and the plane's tense last minutes. Extensive news footage, documents and Soviet communications tapes are used to illustrate an astonishing possibility: was there a deliberate plan to probe the Russian defense perimeter with a commercial airliner?
The Mystery of Chernobyl
Entombed within a concrete sarcophagus in the Ukraine, Chernobyl's number four nuclear reactor lies in ruins. It will remain dangerously radioactive for hundreds of years to come. Here, the unthinkable happened: a nuclear reactor sped out of control in 1986, resulting in an explosion and the release of radioactive particles What caused the disaster? How was the situation contained? Television news footage, maps and diagrams piece together the unfolding drama: a routine test goes horribly wrong; an army of clean-up and containment workers makes heroic efforts in radiation danger zones; radioactive fallout threatens Europe; a terrified citizens flee their homes. Chilling and unforgettable images convey the full impact of a nightmarish disaster.
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